For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
For to every one who has turned to God in truth and with a whole heart, the doors are open, and the thriceglad Father receives his truly repentant child. And true repentance is to be no longer bound in the same sins for which he denounced death against himself, but to eradicate them completely from the soul. For on their uprooting God takes up his abode again in you. For it is said there is great and exceeding joy and festivity in the heavens with the Father and the angels when one sinner turns and repents. This is why he cries, “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”
